Rupert, Vermont.
Typical home $410,918 (+4.1% in a year). Bennington, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,078 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,301 +4%
- $394,616$410,918 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,067 +13%
- $362,850$410,918 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Rupert$2,157
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Rupert, VT rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rupert, Bennington County, Vermont
Rupert is a town of 698 people in Bennington County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Bennington County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bennington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Rupert is a very small Vermont town, with far fewer people than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, which is far more than across the county, and a typical home is valued well above what many people expect for rural New England. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow through the season, and summers are mild and warm in July.
Work. People who live in Rupert work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Bennington County, the largest workplaces include Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Mack Molding Company and Bennington College. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good share of residents work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has dipped slightly.
Things to do. Rupert State Forest and Emerald Lake State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, and the American Museum of Fly Fishing is a short drive away as well. For a longer drive, Bromley Mountain is a ski area that draws people in the colder months.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Bennington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bennington County had 16,642 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 55°. About 75 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sunderland weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bennington County
- Southwestern Vermont Medical CenterGeneral hospital823FTE
- Mack Molding Company3089367
- Bennington CollegeUniversity or college347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters280
- Taconic and Green Regional School District #63School district221FTE
- KamanAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing185
- Mount Anthony Union High School District #14School district185FTE
- Southwest Vermont Union Elementary School District #87School district157FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,548 people in all across the county; Rupert has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bennington County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Bennington County and the Bennington, VT metro.
Rupert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rupert$410,918
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Rupert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rupert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.